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THE NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

COMPLETE returns give Cook, Democratic
candidate for Secretary of State in New
York, a plurality Of 1887. The Henry
George Labor vote is 69,77S, and the Pro-
hibition vote 42,051.
FRANCOIS RADoUx, lieutenant in the
army of the First Napoleon, has just died at
Portland, Me-, aged 81.
THE largest Fair held in New York in
many years is in progress under. the
auspices of the combined Masons Of the
Metropolis, and for the purpose of increasing
the Asylum fund.
FIVE men were injured, one fatally, at a
fire in Pittsburg, Penn.
REV. Col. ANDERSON was publicly in.
stalled as ChapIain-in-C Chief OF the Grand
Army of the Republic at Norwalk, Conn,
with appropriate ceremonies.
THE Attorney General of Pennsylvania has
decided that woman cannot be made no
tary public in that State.
JOHN Most, the Anarchist leader, has been
adjudged guilty by a New York jury of using
language calculated to cause a riot. Herr
Most has already served a term of ono
years Imprisonment on similar charge.
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Terrible Scene in q Jail.

Early the Same morning three Sioux In
dans named Finger-Nail, Sitting-in-F Front,
and Pete Matthews. confined in the county
Jail at Glendive, Montana, for horse steal
ing, made an attack on two white prisoners.
Their weapons were table knives, a
pair Of scissors, and common chairs
with which the jail was sup
one of the white prisoners Finger-Nail
and Sitting in Front hanged themselves in
their cells with their bunk straps. They were
assisted by the other Indian, Pete Matthews,
who, after they committed the deed, tried to
butt his brains out against the wall Of the
cell, but was secured and ironed by Sheriff
Tuttle and several other persons. The two
Indians who hanged themselves stabbed
themselves all over their bodies before re-
sorting to hanging.
Francisco Salamo, an italian, who was
confined on charge OF burglary, was tabled
in several places, and the county physician
did not expect him to live until morning.
The other prisoner, L. Il. Tuck, was
stabbed and pounded over the head with
chairs in the hands of the Indians. He re-
gained consciousness late in the afternoon, and
him with knives, after which he became un-
conscious The doctor says he will recover
with proper care.
These Indians tried to starvet themselves to
death several months ago, and after that re-
marked that they would not live to
bo tried for horse stealing. The pris-
oners appeared jolly and contented the
previous evening when the janitor made
his rounds They were allowed too
much liberty, neither one of the cells being
locked, only the outside door Of the cage.
They had access to all the cells, and the
Indians waited until they thought the white
DrisOners were sound asleep.
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Washington.

THE Interstate Commerce Commission
ers conduct their business sitting in row up
on a platform, like row of judges.
TOTAL number of post-ofices in the United
States on June so, 1887, was SIS, 157.
VALUE CT the gold deposited in the United
States mints during the past fiscal year was
ssS, ,4l6, 779; of silver, s47,756,9lS
POSTAL revenues during the last fiscal year
were S4S, ,11S,273; expenditures, $53, 133, ,252.
Receipts increased over the previous year H.
per cent, and if this ratio continues the
postal service will be self-sustaining again in
two years.
THE Postofice authorities recommend a
trial in the great cities of this country of the
pneumatic tube system now in successful
operation in London, Berlin and Paris.
The President has appointed Stephen F.
Mitchell Collector Of Customs at Saco, Me.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: James B. Chess, Of Indiana, to be
United States Consul at Durango, Mexico;
and Allen D. Norman to be Postmaster at
San Diego, Cal.
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STONING THE POLICE.
Citizens of Limerick Prevented from
Holding Demonstration.

Citizens of Limerick Prevented from
Holding Demonstration.
An attempt made in Limerick, Ireland, on
Sunday, to hold demonstration in honor OF
Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, hanged at Man
chester, was suppressed by the police. The
unveiling of statue to commemorate the
hanging Of the men was set down as portion
of the programme Fearing interference
with the statue, guard surrounded it dur
ing the night. Mr.. McInerney, of New York,
who had been chosen to preside at the de.
monstration, was on the ground and addressed
The police then drew their batons
and made an onslaught upon the crowd.
This was answered by stone throwing.
The crowd was dispersed. Subsequently,
wherever groups were found as
them and seized their flags. In these encoun-
tiers number of people were hurt. Troops
occupied the thoroughfares. The Mayor and
other municipal officers were actively en-
gagged in quieting the people.
A serious disturbance occurred in Liner
ick during the evening. The crowd stoned and
hooted the police, who tried to clear the
streets with batons and bayonets, but met
with great resistance. Many civilians and
COnSIaOleS WeTe luJuleuL 1Eo "ouHNeo
men were conveyed to the hospital. The
police acted in reckless manner.
The windows of the hotels on the streets
where the trouble occurred were filled with
onlookers. Many of these persons tauntel
the police, who replied by throwing stats
and stones, breaking a large number OF
windows. Thirty persons had their wounds
dressed at the hospital.
Tho police used their batons indiscrlmi-
nately, clubbing men, women and small boys.
their houses. The organist of Catholic
church was clubbed on the head while leav-
ing the building. During the disturbance
one shop was completely wrecked and the
windows of tho County Club were smashed
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A Chinese Hospital.

In one of the most crowded thorough.
fares of the Chinese quarter of Shanghai
there has stood for forty years O free
native hospital, mainly supported by the
European community. Very strange its
wards look at first to English visitors
The patients bring their own bedding,
consisting of q bamboo mat and awadded
Quilt. Those who can move about are.
the only regular attendants of those who
cannot. The house surgeon and dis
penscr is a Christian Chinaman, for thirty
wears connected with the hospital and
one of the first converts of a mission
school. Yearly about 800 patients pass
through the wards, and the proportion OF
deaths is small. Last year there were
fifty-six, and in the dispensary more than
90, 900 cases were treated. ~
From very far distances many OF the
poor suffering creatures come, and
lack to their far off homes many 8
healed one has carried blessing greater
than bodily healing; for we believe that
nowhere, at home or abroad, could better
proof be found than in the Shanghai,
hospital of the benefit of combining
medical and Gospel work. Daily the.
waiting room, seated for 300, is crowded
with men, women and children long
before the dispensing hour, and daily an
English missionary, as conversant with
their language as his own, sets before
this waiting multitude the word of life.
II believe" writes Christian physician
who for some years had the oversight OF
this work, "that the Chinese undergo
more suffering for want of medical
knowledge than any other nation in the
world. In an institution like this,
almost daily under a good physician
NAV the blind receive sight, the deaf
hear, the lame walk.-London Quicer. s
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Ingenuity on Both Sides.

A gentleman about to close his sum-
mer house at Nahant conceived what ne
considered brilliant idea to insure the
daily personal inspection of every room
in his villa during the winter by the old
man in whose charge the establishment
was to be left. Accordingly, he said to
the old man that he should leave all his
clocks, one in each room, at Nahant, dur
ing the winter, and he desired that every
one should he wound up at regular
hour each day. The old man concurred
in the plan with all his heart, and prom
missed he would not fail. The house was
closed. The owner Dragged good deal
about his scheme for having every room
guarded against leaks, ETC., during the
winter, and canfe to Boston. Aweek or
two aftcrward this gentleman thought
he would take run down to Nahant, and
see how things were going. When he
arrived there he found his man. who was
very glad to see him, and told him that
he had wound each clock faithfully as he
had directed. On enterinG the house the
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Pearl Oysters.

The business of getting the pearls out
of oysters is tolerably disas reeable one
The oysters are thrown into large vessels,
and left to die, when the shells open Of
their own accord. The shells arc then
removed, but the oysters themselves are
left in buckets till they become decom-;
posed, when they are we'll stirred. The
pearls sink to the bottom, and the re-
mainder is poured off. It may be readily
inferred that the odor in the camp Of;
pearl seekers is more powerful than;
pleasant.
The pearl has its origin in the efforts of
the oyster to protect itself from the irri-'
tation caused by the presence of some
foreign body between the shell and its
mantle, as the soft skin of the oyster is
technically termed. To mitigate the suf..s
fering caused by this vexacious intruder,
the oyster deposits thereon a coating Of
the same material as that of which the;
shell is composed, and when once this
process has begun, it continues, till in !;
time the pearl grows large enough TO kill
the oyster. u
To the fanciful minds of Oriental
nations no such crude explanation has
ever occurred, and they still attribute to-
pearls much more poetic origin. The
oysters, they say, rise by night to the
surface Of the water, and opening their
shells, receive therein single drop of
dew. This in time becomes pearl, aud
if the dew has been pure aud clear, the
pearl will be beautiful one; but If the
drop of dew has been soiled with i'm
purities, then the pearl will be opaque
and of no value. -
Lima us, the "father of naturalist, y
received the honor of knighthood for {
demonstrating the possibility of arti-
fcially inducing the formation of pearls
in the pearl l-bearing mussel. But, ashas
been the case with other European inven-
tions of which we have thought a good
deal, it has since turned out that John 4
Chinaman has been doing this thing for
a couple of thousand years or so. The (
Chinese method is to take the mussel from
the river, carefully force the shells a little
way apart, and insert between the mantle
of the oyster and one of the shells few
little pellets of clay, tiny pearls or foreign 4
bodies of some kind. When this has
been done, the oyster is turned over, and
the poor fellow is obliged to submit to .
similar uncomfortable process on hii
other side. He is then put back into a
pond, where he is kept we'll and fat by q
diet more nourishing than nice. After .
few months, or sometimes year ortwo,
he is again taken from his bed, his pearls
are taken out, and he is eaten.
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Dull Times West.

Eastern Man-"How is business in
Prairie City,"
Western Man--"Eveything's dead 4;
don't know what the country is coming
to-"
L. M.-"Why, Iheard ten new factor-
ries were going up there"
w. M.-"Yes, that So"
+. M.-"And IL new board of trade
had started in opposition to the old one" "
w. M.-"Ycs, l believe so."
+. M.-"And 1 was told AGO new
houses were in course of construction.
w. M.-"Yes, 1s'pose that's about the
number"
f. M.-"But you say things are dull. "
w. M.-"DuN's no name for it; dead,
absolutely dead. Why, sir, I staked out
suburb, only fifty miles away, into
twenty-foot lots at $4,000 a lot, an |
amt sold DANCED one of 'em. ."-7Fd-
Bits.
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WESTERN TRAGEDIES.
Three Persons Killed in an At
tempt to Arrest a Thief.
White Prisoners Stabbed by Indians
in a Montana Jail.

Deputy Marshal Frank Dalton and j. K
Cole crossed from Arkansas into the Chero-
kee Nation the other morning, to arrest
horse thief and whisky peddler named Smith,
who, they were told, was at tent on
the Alexander place, about q mile and
half from Fort Smith. Arriving at the
tent, Cole rode upon ono side, and Dalton on
the other Seeing a man at the door OF the
tent, Dalton inquired for Smith, who rushed
out, pistol in hand. Dalton said: Don't
shoot; want no trouble" But Smith fired,
shooting him in the left breast, inflictinS
Dalton said: "I am killed." and fell from
his horse with the hammer of his pistol
caught at half cock. Cole shot Smith as he
turned to re-enter the tent. Then woman
ran out with child in her arms, and man
named Dixon followed her. Cole, who
had dismounted, stepped backward,
but his spur catching in a tent cord,
he tripped and fell Dixon then fired at him
before he could rise, putting ball through g
the right breast. Cole tried to shoot him,
but the woman caught his Winchester.
Quickly jerking loose, however, he fired,
shooting Dixon in the shoulder.
He then backed to tree, and a regular
fight followed, in which the wife of Dixon
was accidently killed, and two bullets were
put through Coles coat and the bark was
peeled off the tree behind which he was
sheltered. Finling a chance to escape
Cole hurried away on foot, his horse
having run off during the fight,
and when he had gone short distance man
came out Of the tent, and approached Dalton,
who was badly wounded, and needless of his
piteous appeals for his life, fired two bullets
into his head, causing instant death. Smith
died from his wounds at three o'clock in the
afternoon. Dixon is now In the United
States jail hospital.
Lowrey, the man who finished up Dalton,
is still at large, bat will probably be cap
tured, as all of the marshal's force are
in pursuit and are securing the country
catch him, as it is becoming too hot for
deputy marshals in tho Indian Territory.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THE long-continued shoemakers' strike In
Philadelphia has ended.
THE National Convention Of Boot and Shoe
Manufacturers has just been held in New
York.
THE Baldwin Locomotive Works are max
ing fifteen locomotive engines week, and
employ 2, 700 men.
IT is estimated that &c, ,G75, 900 yards of silk
ribbon, equivalent to about q, 200 miles, have
l,een made in Paterson, n. j., during the past
year.
TWENTY warrants were served in Cohoes,
N. Y, recently, OH persons charged with VI
plating the law in respect to employing GILL
dren in factories
PATERSON, N. j., turns out 500, 900, 900
worth of finished silk goods annually, and
swiss manufacturers and workmen are being
driven out Of the business in consequence.
THE Canadian Federated Labor Committee
is making an extended investigation into the
condition of persons employed in Canada IN
The agricultural, mining, numbering anu ISL
ing industries.
A CONVENTION Of the brass workers OF the
United States ut present members OF the
Knights Of Labor is about to be held IN Cleve-
land Ohio, for the purpose OF forming a na-
honal district.
NEW rubber shoe mandatory, with am
ple capital and to employ 1000 hands, is to
be built in Naugatuck, Conn. New York
capitalists are back of the enterprise, and the
factories to be used will be ready for occu-
pancy next spring.
A STATE convention Of workingmen has
heen called to meet in Staunton, Va, on Jan.
G. 1883. The object of the convention IS de
.lared TO establish a State bureau of labor
tatistics. to abolish the convict contract
nlnn to consider the public school system
With a view to its greater efficiency and
,ther measures of interest to working people.
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He Understood.

On a Wabash and Cottage Grove grip
First Person-'I got the worst of it
to-day"
Second Ditto-"So2"
First-"Yes. went home last night
and that duck of wife said to me {:
sDearic, the hats this fall are much
lower was overcome with Joy, and
told her to go and get one or two if she
liked, because you know how uncertain
the market is"
Second Ditto-"Wellm
First-"Well, she did; got two. To-
day I paid the bill. Holy Joseph, but it
was q sumner. More than I ever paid
before. So I spoke to my wife about it,
and her reply was that she meant the
,tyle was lower-not the price. See?
That wife of mine ought to be lawyer
or an editor or something where her
genius could spread itself.
The speaker turned to see the effect of
his narrative upon his friend, but the
after had fallen off his seat about half
block Distant @ icago Nail.
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THE NEW HOUSE.
Some Data Respecting the Lower
Branch of Congress.

Some Data Respecting the Lower
Branch of Congress.
Some interesting data in respect to the po-
litical complexion Of the new House have
been compiled at tho Capitol OF the 1853
regular Democrats it seems that l04 are old
members reelected and Ga are new members
Out Of the 104 old members, SO have been re-
turned from the South and 35 from tho
North, while 3S Of the new members are
from Southern States and 81 from Northern
States Altogether, the Southern States
have l02 Democratic Representatives., and
the Northern States 66. On the Republican
side Of the House there are 81 old members
and 50 new members, making 153 in all. The
Northern States send back SO of the old men,
bers VINO are reelected, while but 5 old mem
bers have been returned from the whole
of the South. The Southern States, how
ever, return II new Republicans, making 10
Republican Representatives from the whole
South. The Northern States have elected
4s new Republican Representatives, and have
total representation in the House of 137 Re-
publican members
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SANKEy, tho singing evangelist, has gone
to Europe.
THE Queen of Sweden has become insane
and is confined at Ulriksdal.
BUFFALO BILL says he is worth $500, 900,
mostly in Western real estate.
ATHoUsAND dollars an hour is said to be
low estimate Of Jay Gould's income.
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, is said
to have the most musical voice in Congress.
DIR. TALMAGE can work best on his feel
md makes most Of his sermons while walking
the floor.
Col. J. B. STEINBERGER, Prime Minister
Of the Samoan Isl ,nds under the recently
dethroned King Malietoa, is now living III
!! retirement at Kent, Conn.
w. w. CoRcoKAN, the Washington phi.
lanthropist will soon be eighty-nine years OF
| acc. but he SAYS that he expects to entertain
more than usual during this winter.
| ONE of the most successful surgeons OF
| PHILADELPHIA is DR.. Caroline V. Anderson,
| the daughter of wealthy negro coal mer-
chant. She was graduated from the Medical
| Department of the University of Pennsyi-
vania.
Ex-SEcRETARY ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Of
| Chicago, bears no resemblance whatever to
his father, his face being rather symmetrical
in outline, with round cheeks. Not nearly as
tall as the dead President he is large and
heavily built.
SENATOR STANFORD, Of California. has
about twenty Jockeys at his Palo Alt farm
and nearly one hundred stable EN- ployes
He has recently established a night school for
their benefit. at which Mrs. Stanford herself
frequently gives instruction.
MARSHAL FIELD, tue Chicago dry-good.
prince, is estimated to be worth nearly SEQ,
| 0JO,OO0 When the war broke out he was @
clerk with L. Y, Letter, his present partner
in the dry-goods house of Cooley, Wadswortt
e. Co. Things looked blue at that time, anc
John v. Farwell, the managing partner
offered the young clerks percer taSe OF the
profits in lieu OF their salaries At the enc
Of the year each clerk drew out $50, 600 fol
| hia ehara
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South and West.

FIVE vessels were wrecked near Chicago in
gale.
Mrs. SALT, a resident of Lawrence, Kan,
refused to take food Of any kind for four
weeks and then died.
THE Anarchist Defense Committee of Chi
cago have definitely arranged to have their
five dead associates buried in one plot Of
ground, 5000 square feet, in Waldhelm Gem
etery.
POLICEMAN HANSEN, who was one of the
victims of the bombs at the riot in Chicago,
has become insane from his injuries. His leg
had been amputated twice.
The local election in Atlanta, Ga, wa
won by the ti-Prohibtionists, after an exs
the polls and urged the voters, both white
and black, to vote the dry" ticket. The "wet''
ticket won, however, by about 1,0OOmajority.
Two years ago the Prohibitionists carried the
city by majority of 228. The Prohibition
leaders this year were United States Senator
Colauitt and Editor H w. Grady; the anti
Prohibition leaders were United States
Senator Brown and E. P. Howell, Mr..
Grady's partner. A majority of the colored
vote went for the "wet" ticket.
UNUSUALLY cold weather has already
visited the Northwest. At st. Vincent,
Mimi, the thermometer was 22 degrees be-
low zero; Bismarck, Dakota l6 below, and
Cheyenne, Wyoming, 10 below.
The explosion of boiler in the kitchen Of
the Kirby House, at Milwaukee, killed one
woman and seriously injured number Of
others.
IT is reported that there is no doubt as to
the insanity of e1-United States Senator
Jones, of Florida
A HALL at Mineola, Texas, in which col
ored people were holding q dance, collapsed
suddenly during a violent wind storm. Five
persons were killed and about twenty in
jured. Six of the injured had arms or legs
broken.
THE captain of a steamer which has just
arrived at New Orleans makes public
letter which he had received from tho
owner of an American schooner to the effect
that armed Nicaraguans had boarded and
taken forcible possession of his and another
American vessel.
A BOILER of a steam sawmill near Denni-
son, Ill.,, exploded, and Ed. Gilky, a promi-
nent farmer, was instantly killed, and Joe
Clark and Sylvester Norman were fatally
wounded
PAUL WOLF, the Herr Most Of Chicago,
has been arrested, charged with making
threats against States Attorney Grinnell,
Judge Gary, and all the jurors in the An
archist trial
C. R. ANDC K. GARRISON, nephews of the
late Commodore Garrison, were killed while
descending lead mine at Webb City. Mo.
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1t Gould Not Be.

He put on his hat, started slowly for
the door, hesitated, came back, sighed
deeply and took the lily white hand in
his own and pressed it to his lips.
"Katie," he murmurcd, II have waited
long oh, how long!-for this oppor-
unity. Will you, Katie, will you,
larling be minc."
"IIenry," she replied, with a look half
Of sorrow and half of determination, sit
IAN never be-"
"Nevcr be! Oh, why have you per-
mitted me to hope? Why have You en-
,ouraged me, only to stamp upon my
bleeding heart at last"
81 nm sorry, Henry; but can never
be yours. l have other objects in view"
"Other objccts!"
"Yes, Henry; cannot consent to be-
long to any man. I intend that you
shall be mine. ."-Boston Transcript.
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Crushed Again.

Nlidnight.) Poor wife to husband
whose loud snoring keeps her awake
'sCharlie! Charlie! do stop snoring
Turn over on your side!" (Nudges him.
Husband, only half awake, grunts,
turns on his side, and continues to snore.
Wife has happy idea. Remembers a
inc from an article called Chow to Pre-
rent Snoring" Gives her husband a
second nudge, which elicits another
yrunt. ooh, Charliel If you'd keep
7our mouth shut, you'd be all right"
Charlie (still semi-consciou9 $50
would you'll l"-Harpe,'s Bazar.
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two proceeded to the rear drawing room,
and the astonishment of the owner may
be better imagined than described when
he saw ranged along in a row his thirteen
clocks, which the old man had brought
down to save himself the trouble of go.
ing all over the house every day.-R0stoa
Gazette,